Summer 1982, the World Cup. I was 8 years old, I was on vacation in Sicily and the world stood in front of me with excitement Italy-Germanyto the incredible football acrobatics of our Azzurri, I spent my evenings in front of the jukebox and spent all my money listening to this wonderful 20-year-old blonde talk about “Good boys for a walk in a world that seems to be more than a hundred meters away away from the asphalt”.
I didn’t know it and I would have discovered it just this summer, his name was Miguel Bose and that song was his generational manifesto, his cry of rebellion. Son of art, raised in the Spanish jet set (family friends, the painter Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalì and the writer Ernest Hemingway), the only man who should have been as strong as his father, the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin and talented and beautiful like his mother, the actress Lucia Bose, who became the idol of the teenagers of the time with a few pop songs, one in particular Super Superman, and who already told all his uneasiness in this song, he sang of do-gooders for whom “staying up is almost magic, among so many cheaters, so much Hypocrisy. We move forward without ever looking down, so we can’t go back. We go into disarray in a world that is about to hit rock bottom.. “.
Since that day Miguel Bose He became one of my idols, beautiful and unattainable, and I almost felt betrayed when, at the peak of his commercial musical success in the 80’s, he disappeared from Italy, started doing other things, in other countries, chasing new dreams to dress different skin tones.
Basically, Miguel’s whole life was one Walking the wire, in the sky, floating in time, poet of ’56, in crisis for ages, a good boy who felt torn. Experiment, change, because his future is always “a few meters away”.
did Notes in English, in SpanishYes, really in French, played for Almodovar in high heels (His famous transvestite interpretation of Mina’s A Year of Love is great), narrated at the San Sebastiano Theater (“For the will to be even more who San Sebastiano had”, he said about himself) Duet with Shakira and Laura Pausini, wrote an autobiography in which he tells the hell of his childhood, certainly not a golden e 4 kids made with partner, conceived through a surrogate mother and returned to Italy to become the artistic director of Amici. Grizzled, imbolsito, albeit always incredibly ironic and sexy.
It’s coming out today Series about his life, we kids of the 80’s can’t wait to see her, to relive her life made up of a thousand acrobatics. Although for me it will always be that blonde deity who in 1984 “went forward without ever looking down because there was no turning back”.